EU court adviser says Google’s Gemini may infringe press copyright
Google’s Gemini chatbot may infringe EU copyright rules when it uses press articles to generate answers, an adviser to the bloc’s highest court said on Tuesday. The opinion draws a distinction between training AI models on copyrighted material and reproducing publishers’ work in the responses they give users, Reuters reported. Advocate General Maciej Szpunar found […] This story continues at The Next Web
The position changes when a chatbot retrieves a publisher’s article, uses it to construct an answer and presents that answer to a user.
In such cases, “the press publisher’s right may be infringed in certain circumstances,” he said.
Hungarian news publisher Like Company sued Google Ireland after Gemini generated summaries of its articles in response to user queries.
The publisher argues that the chatbot reproduced its content without permission, going beyond the use of short extracts. A Budapest court referred the questions to the EU court in April 2025.
Google has argued that Gemini does not memorise articles and that any potentially infringing outputs would fall under exceptions for temporary copies and text and data mining. The company has also challenged the application of Hungarian law, arguing that Gemini was not trained in Hungary.
The Luxembourg case puts the focus on what chatbots produce for users, rather than on the data used to train them.
